Global challenges expo 2020 – online vernissage and awards

This year the Expo moves online, and everybody is invited to take part in project presentations and inspiring messages from guests, leave feedback and vote for their favorite project. On May 18, at 18.00, a live stream will announce the winners of the Global Challenges Expo Awards 2020, sponsored by the Global Challenges Foundation and selected by a jury of experts, and by you! Tune in and be inspired!

We entered the Decade of Action towards reaching the UN global goals, and mitigating global catastrophic risk is more urgent than ever. While 2020 is throwing us a curveball, making global challenges ever more salient, we refuse to be defeated! We need to find new perspectives in order to reach solutions.

Through the Global Challenges educational track, our students gain deeper insight into environmental and social challenges – all in order to influence and make a difference in their roles as future decision makers. “Bubble-hopping” is one of the methods that we have used in Global Challenges, and the theme for this year’s Expo. Students were asked to become aware of the bubble they are living in and deliberately step out of it, visit and connect on a deeper level with people in different bubbles.

We invite you to jump outside your bubble too, and be inspired by students' solutions as they find their way to contribute with solutions to global challenges!

Vote for your favorite project!

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Global Challenges AT STOCKHOLM SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS

Three years ago, we introduced a whole new educational track: Global Challenges, which is sponsored by the Global Challenges Foundation.In this two-year course, all students in the Bachelor's program in Business and Economics at Stockholm School of Economics gain deeper insight into global catastrophic risks such as climate change, pandemics and artificial intelligence, as well as other environmental and social challenges.

GC STUDENT SURVEY FROM GROUP PROJECTS LAST YEAR: The survey results from last year's student projects are: 22% of the students said that their group projects are still ongoing, 5% stated that their projects are funded or sponsored by a company, and 22% stated their projects were adopted permanently.